Clason, Paul J. "Hap" - Additional Notes
Clason, Paul J. "Hap"
Additional Notes
Entry at National WWII Memorial Website
WEST SALEM -- Paul "Hap" Clason, 83, of West Salem, died Friday, March 29, 2002, at Akron General Medical Center.
Services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Matteson Funeral Home in West Salem, with Pastor Robert Holmes officiating. Burial will be at Congress Cemetery, where military rites will be held.
Friends may call Monday from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Congress Community Church Building Fund, 192 N. Main St., West Salem; or to Northwestern Ruritan, Marilyn Stephenson, 5959 W. Pleasant Home Road, West Salem 44287.
He was born Aug. 1, 1918, in Congress Township, to James and Ethel (DeLong) Clason and married Esther Reba Billheimer on Nov. 2, 1938. She survives.
Other survivors include children, Donald (Peg) Clason of Mentor; Frank (Linda) Clason of Newbury, Cal (Sandrea) Clason of Wooster and Susan (Stanley) Kirkpatrick of West Salem; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; brothers, Chester and James Clason, both of Wooster, Lester Clason of West Salem and Robert Clason of Tennessee; and sisters, Naomi McKee of Cambridge, Donna Jean Mark of Wooster and Phyllis Webb of Rittman.
[Source: The Daily Record (Wooster) Obituaries, March 30, 2002]